“You can put me down now.”
“No.”
I giggled again. “Why not?”
“I like having you in my arms.”
“I’m too heavy.”
“You’re perfect.”
46
Irish
In the same way I knew we shouldn’t make love the night before I left for China, I knew tonight we would. It just felt right. Everything felt right. I couldn’t remember any other time in my life when there wasn’t anywhere else I wanted to be, nothing else I wanted to be doing, no one else I wanted to be with.
All I needed in the world, I held in my arms. I kissed her again and again, like I planned to do all night, tomorrow, and tomorrow night. Hell, I planned to spend the rest of my life kissing Flynn. Every chance I got.
“Paxon?”
“Mm-hmm?”
“We need to talk.”
I carried her over to the bed and gently rested her body on it. I stretched out behind her and slowly lowered the zipper on the back of her dress.
“What are you doing?” she asked.
“Listening.” I moved her hair out of my way, leaned forward, and ran my tongue from the base of her neck down her spine until I came to the clasp on her bra. I released it and kept my trail of kisses going until I reached the small of her back. “You aren’t talking, Flynn.”
“Talk? I can’t even think with you doing that.”
“Now you know how I felt at the end of our helicopter ride. I doubt I could’ve told you my name if you’d asked.”
“Oh, God,” she groaned when I lowered her panties and kissed the dimples right above her ass.
“Do you want me to stop, Flynn?”
“If you stop, I’ll die. I just know it.”
I got on my knees and turned her over. I helped her take off her dress, remove her bra, and let my gaze linger on her panties.
As I did with her back, I trailed kisses from her lips all the way down the front of her body. When I reached the lace of her panties, I moved them aside.
“Paxon,” she groaned when I slid my fingers inside and parted her folds. I touched her clit with the tip of my tongue, and she bucked beneath me.
“What…what…are you doing?”
“Enjoying the hell out of every inch of your body.”
“But—”
“Shh, my precious Flynn. The only thing you need to do is relax and let yourself enjoy it.”
“Paxon, I never…”
She shuddered when I blew on her wetness.
“I need…”
I eased a finger inside her. “What do you need? Tell me, Flynn.”
Her head rolled from side to side. “I have no idea. Just more.”
I added a second finger, gently pumping in and out while she writhed beneath me.
“Paxon, please. I need to see you. I need to feel you.”
“You still aren’t talking.”
“This. This was it.”
“It?”
She reached down and stopped my hand’s movement. “You and me. Tonight. Now. I want to know. I need to know. I don’t care what happens tomorrow; just don’t make me wait any longer.”
As I kissed my way up her body, she squirmed when I reached her soft tummy, so I lingered there, loving on every bit of her flesh.
When I reached her lips, she parted them and I thrust my tongue in her mouth. Her hands landed on my still-clothed ass.
“You need to take off your clothes and—”
“There are a couple of things we need to talk about before that happens.”
“Okay,” she said, her eyes darting between mine.
“First, I do care what happens tomorrow and every day after that.”
“I didn’t mean—”
I put my fingertips on her lips, the same fingers that had been inside her, and she groaned.
“You and I were made for each other. I can’t say with certainty that I believed in God until I met you. Then I knew a higher power had to exist because you, my precious Flynn, are an angel. I’m never letting you go. Never. As long as there is breath left in my body, I want you next to me. This will probably sound crazy to you, but there hasn’t been a time when we’ve been together and I haven’t known that in my heart. Even from the first moment we met.”
“I felt the same.”
“I don’t know what the future will bring other than you and I will be together.”
“I want that more than anything.”
“Enough to marry me?”
“Yes.”
Her certainty, her lack of hesitation, her absolute acceptance made my heart beat faster. “I love you. You know that?”
“I do and I love you.”
“Your brothers are going to think we’re crazy. Either that or they’ll want to hurt me.”
“If there’s anything I’ve learned since my dad got sick it’s that all my brothers want is for me to be happy.” She wiggled her hips. “So, what about you getting naked?”
“I’m sorry, but we have to wait, Flynn.”
Her eyes opened wide. “Until we’re married?” she gasped.
I smiled and shook my head. “Until tomorrow and I can buy condoms.”
She bit her bottom lip. “That was one of the things I wanted to tell you.”
I raised a brow.
“I brought some.”
“You did?”
She nodded.
I rolled off the bed, stood, and pulled my shirt over my head. Flynn rolled too and sat on the edge of the bed in front of me.
“Let me do it,” she said, unfastening my belt. She slowly and gently lowered the zipper, and I could feel the heat of her breath on my skin when she pushed my boxer briefs down. I fisted my hand in her hair when she leaned forward and kissed the tip of my cock.
“Where are the condoms?” I groaned when she swirled her tongue around my hardness. There would be plenty of time for us to pleasure each other’s bodies with our mouths and hands. Right now, I had to be inside of her. As much for her as for me. There would
